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Featured Work Defensor Pacis by Marsilius of Padua In Latin, with illustrated title page and initials. This volume is Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis,” printed in 1522, first appeared in 1324 and triggered a gale of controversy. It was a foundational work of the...
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Featured Work Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola First Separate Edition, in Latin. This is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s most famous work, “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” with two supplementary works by Pico: “Epistola Ioan, Pici ad...
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Featured Work De Consolatio Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Illuminated and Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This manuscript contains “De Consolatio Philosophiae” with an anonymous commentary on Boethius. It was transcribed in an early...
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Featured Work On Liberty by John Stuart Mill First Edition. “On Liberty” is John Stuart Mill’s classic defense of freedom where Mill attempts to apply his system of Utilitarianism to society and the state and tries to establish the principle values of relationship...
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Featured Work Utopia by Thomas More Fourth Corrected Edition in English. This edition of Thomas More’s “Utopia” is entitled “Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia: Containing an Excellent, Learned, Wittie, and Pleasant Discourse of the Best State of...
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Featured Work The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully, Held in Bondage. First Edition. Written by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush and published in 1787. The society was...
